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Re: Seasonal Eggcorns

“You said the cattle are lowering and it’s the cattle are lowing.”
“No it’s not.”
“Yes, it is.”
(Back and forth like that, about five more times until I couldn’t suppress my laughter).
He explained the cattle were lowering themselves down and I questioned how cows laying down could possibly wake up a baby. blog

Re: Seasonal Eggcorns

What do I do if my cat ate christmas tensile? I had found some poop on the floor this morning and it had a lot of tensile in it. Q&A site

If you have only a very simple loop and are having troubles, carefully check to make sure there’s nothing touching the track. Think UNDER the track also. (Is there a piece of Christmas tensile under there?)model railroad discussion=

Some of the things you may want to use are glitter paints, glue and glitter, Christmas tensile, crayons, markers, and regular craft paint. arts and crafts

Re: Seasonal Eggcorns

Lots of people pronounce this “tensil” (plenty of ghits), and if they write that a spell-checker would easily correct it to tensile . The tensile strength of the stuff is probably not in the mind of one out of a thousand: and that one is probably punning.

*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .

Re: Seasonal Eggcorns

“Tensile” for “tinsel” seems plausible to me. One of the common meanings of “tensile” is “able to be stretched” (All of the these buildings with stretched fabric components—football stadiums, plazas, etc.—are “tensile fabric constructions.”). Tree tinsel is certainly stretchy. And tinsel was, in the pre-plastic era, metallic, which may connect it up to the related sense of “tensile” that we associate with tensioned metals.

Last edited by kem (2014-12-31 13:36:39)

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